In 1994 journalists made their first tentative steps onto the internet.
Just a few years later online journalists were are the cutting edge of news reporting both during and after the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11 2001. As that crisis unfolded Telegraph.co.uk serviced 600 page requests – per second.
In just one decade online journalism had become central to peoples’ lives.
To mark that achievement, Journalism.co.uk has created a timeline that plots the development of online news. It is not a comprehensive list of every success and failure. Instead, it tracks many of the events and debates that have shaped the craft of online journalism in the UK since 1994.
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